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Question(s). Did they drop cinema channel 141 (131 on first post) to add AMC-HD? Does this mean that the available slots didn't change, essentially meaning we still have room for up to 12 ? And they could possibly drop more Cinema and still not change that 12 number?

Question(s). Did they drop cinema channel 141 (131 on first post) to add AMC-HD? Does this mean that the available slots didn't change, essentially meaning we still have room for up to 12 ? And they could possibly drop more Cinema and still not change that 12 number?

Nah ... I don't think so, because ch. 141 CINEHD is still in the data stream though "moved" to inactive status at the moment, which means its only a temporary take down to make room for something else.

If CINEHD ch. 141 were actually removed like CINEHD ch. 131 mentioned earlier when AMC-HD went up in "TEST" mode, it would be listed likewise under the second category;

"SIGNIFICANT Changes: OLD (removed) from 2011-09-07 compared to 2011-09-09:"

So it looks like we are down to about 11 available slots of linear HD capacity before needing to permanently remove CINEHD channels.

Or maybe even 1 slot if 10 of them for transponder pair 9/10 on DIRECTV-12 are actually unavailable and used for something else.

Nah ... I don't think so, because ch. 141 CINEHD is still in the data stream though "moved" to inactive status at the moment, which means its only a temporary take down to make room for something else.

If CINEHD ch. 141 were actually removed like CINEHD ch. 131 mentioned earlier when AMC-HD went up in "TEST" mode, it would be listed likewise under the second category;

Exactly. They had to remove a channel when they initially put AMC HD up in test mode, not today when it was made available to everyone.

Question(s). Did they drop cinema channel 141 (131 on first post) to add AMC-HD? Does this mean that the available slots didn't change, essentially meaning we still have room for up to 12 ? And they could possibly drop more Cinema and still not change that 12 number?

As the report shows, 141 went offline for PPV 493. It shows D12 TP11 slot 1030 going from 141 to 493.

And as we've been discussing here and in the D14 thread, that 12 number may not be accurate if D12 TP9/10 are being used for other purposes that we're not aware of. By the fact that they're taking down Cinema HD for new channels is a sure indication that they (at least currently) have other purposes for that other bandwidth.

The report shows the movement from transponder to transponder, and from online/active to offline within a transponder, with the legend explaining the terminology. I like it, and it gets the job done.

Someday, I may re-visit a better way, but not sure what that would be.

As I've mentioned before, (and you've requested), I've thought about removing the 10xx (active) to 1700 (offline) movement, but I think it's very important to show the movement so that everyone can see how Cinema HD is used for part-time needs. It's a very important part of bandwidth analysis.

I've also been capturing the mid-Sunday analysis, to show how Cinema HD is used for Sunday Ticket. I've been comparing the past 4 NFL weekends, with week 3 probably being the most active. I need to summarize it.

Some technicality - those tpn0 and PID_0000 are not kosher, perhaps you should revisit some routines.My parser did show full info for one of those what I pick from your last report:"PPV" 785 tp9 D10 net15 1700 1702

If I forgot to mention before - there is a method to verify the parsing from stream: - using a program DTVcontrol and USB-Serial dongle, send cmd FA 83 (len=45) after you sent Set the desired channel number.I found H20 is more reliable to control via USB-Serial vs HR2x models.

PS. I took samples of Net10's system info at 9:40am PDT and got the tables:

Notes:- in bald - active channels- if tpn# is alone, then net# is default [10]- if tp#/net#, then it has different net# from the default- if tp#^net#, then there is special mark of the redirection from default net- places of slate (inactive channels) are D11@99W [tp9/net10/1700] and D10@103W [tp9/net15/1700]

Some technicality - those tpn0 and PID_0000 are not kosher, perhaps you should revisit some routines ...

You're the master and your routines and gct's/doctor j's postings are the true reference documents.

I view this thread, and my posts, as more the summary view and daily spot check of D10/D11/D12, so that we can keep track of what comes and goes from day-to-day, but I always view your data as the specific details, since you're the expert and have parsing tools that I don't have access to.

I'm just doing rudimentary comparisons from day-to-day. It's sure beats when I used to compare your spreadsheets manually.